Hypsiops

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic Taxobox

| name = Hypsiops

| image = Hypsiops breviceps Exhibit Museum of Natural History.JPG

| image_caption = Hypsiops breviceps

| fossil_range = Late Oligocene

| taxon = Hypsiops

| authority = Schultz and Falkenbach (1950)

| type_species =

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

  • H. breviceps Douglass 1907
  • H. erythroceps Stock 1932

| synonyms =

}}

Hypsiops is an extinct genus of oreodont of the family Merycoidodontidae endemic to North America. They lived during the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene epochs, 20.4—16.0 mya, existing for approximately {{Mya|20-16|million years}}.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42495 Hypsiops at fossilworks] Fossils have been uncovered throughout the western U.S. in Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, and Nebraska.

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